About two (out of many) whores who in pursuit of their political careers in effect conduct info-sabotage against Russia. In this case it is about former General Gurulev (a rather despicable character, thrown out of the Army) and Zakhar Prilepin--a darling of all kinds of fringe liberal political aspirants and of much of Russian media. This is a great conversation, if you wish, by Nadana. I assume this is a combination of her principles (e.g. she was ruthless about Apti Alaudinov or rather a circle of scumbags which coalesced around him) and of understanding where political winds in Moscow blow.
It is about time that this sewer of Russian media and voenwhores they promote, such as shadow asset for GUR Rybar, or Podolyaka et al, and even hysterical Solovyov (God, he "loves" me--he promised to beat me, I guess I have to accommodate his desires) be subjected to a judicial, not just public opinion treatment. Solovyov is butthurt that this time he hasn't been even invited to SPIEF 2026. Poor, poor dear. I guess that's the price one pays for dragging all kinds of trash on his "shows".
Meanwhile in Kiev, aw, poor poor dears Russia destroyed Aleksandr Dovzhenko's film studio. Ouch, those barbaric Russians. But wait ...
What kind of "movies" were they shooting with a shitload of wings for drones? What a strange movie studio, it produces this kind of "films".
But what do I know. It also shows how stupid journos are--they inadvertently confirmed a good strike at one of the facilities in Kiev, which together with other 404 cities was having a blast(s). I talk about it in my today's video which should be up shortly.
... yesterday. But before watching this, some reminder about POLITICAL AIMS of wars. Here is the map of Berlin and Occupation Zones in 1945.
As you may recall, Berlin was taken (liberated) exclusively by the Red Army and Polish Forces. The US, British, let alone French haven't been nowhere near Berlin in May of 1945. Yet, here we are--all three got their zones of occupation--a political decision which accounted for the Allied aid and fighting on the Western Front.
Now is the demonstration of why 90% of media are cretins and why average Joe (or Ivan) has no idea what they are talking about, especially Western Joe who knows war only through Hollywood BS and fairy tales of the Gulf Wars.
This is precisely the "logic" which led to SMO and defeat of the West. In general, the real expertise in the West is dead and what's left is PR. That is why everyone missed Putin's statement about Novorossiya which will come back home once the fighting is over--no need now to kill Russian soldiers where the outcome is already known.
... in Kursk area--wrong choice. By now it is a turkey shoot, really. Marines of 155th Brigade yesterday took the stronghold of VSU--no casualties among marines, all VSU are 200s.
And when I say "mop-up" it literally is. Here you can see how easily you can miss enemy's 200s.
Now NYT grudgingly admits VSU's atrocities against civilians. NYT bears responsibility for that too. In fact, they are all complicit in war crimes, including their "reporters". Human waste. Larry makes a good point about these "legacy" media.
... no, not Ministerstvo Oborony, but Modus Operandi. Desperation is a powerful emotion and when combined with Pentagon's military ability primarily in media environment as opposed to actual ground--one gets this.
Like a drug, one constantly needs some media "victories", which can for a day or two keep narrative going. Well, they tried today.
And, of course, this half-battalion strong formation is being finished off as I type it. They killed civilians though, two of them. People ask me now (I am not kidding) who the fuck plans this shit--is it VSU alone or together with great "strategists" from D.C. and London? I think--both. They need "to do something", especially when Toretsk is crumbling... even sappy sentimental supporters of 404 from NYT cannot deny it:
Ah, poor-poor dears, maybe by now they begin to suspect that this war is not about territory, which will fall to Russia the way Russia wants it anyway, not to some clueless cretin, or group thereof, in D.C. It is about "demilitarizing" in its most crude and effective form--killing the enemy. Russia didn't want to do it, she was forced, but this is what it is now. And so good ol' boys and girls in NATO capitals try to play true believers in their own BS. But somehow, conviction seems the last thing on their minds. The numbers of UAVs and loitering munitions Russian forces receive monthly is staggering--it is beyond the combined West's industrial capacity. The video shows the work of Lancets today... The place is a location of the pump-station for Druzhba gas-pipeline, this is supply to Hungary and Slovakia.
Bernhard of MoA did a great service by providing a link to the article from yesterday which, in this particular case, does provide words from Pentagon man, that is not just some BSer from Reuters or CNN, or WSJ who make numbers up and then lie that those numbers are from their "sources". But even this "15,000 Russian troops killed" dude had to cool it on the Ukie BS being used by US media:
But as I stated, even Pentagon's "figure" (7,000-15,000 KIAs), if it was delivered by someone "in the know" shows the absolute lack of even fleeting grasp of what is going on on the ground in Ukraine. I agree with Bernhard's title of his article and its content:
That is why I constantly cringe when, yet another, "analyst" begins to weep about Russia "losing the information war". Russia couldn't have "won" such a war abroad, because it is the only field in which US excels--creation of virtual reality by means of non-stop lies in every single field US media cover, be it elections, health, war (especially war), science, education, you name it. They lie, that's what they do. Part of this lie serves political agenda of non-stop elections shell game, which passes for "democracy", a euphemism of substituting one incompetent amoral ignoramus for another. The other part is a genuine ignorance, no more so than in the field of warfare. For every truth Russia delivers, there are 10 respective insane lies.
Just to demonstrate what kind of fraud this "journalism" is, we may go to Columbia University Journo "Program" and partake in the most difficult (in involves some calculations) part of this pseudo-profession and it is Data Journalism. As the title implies, the future "journo" will be taught how to handle data. Just get the load of this from curriculum:
So, in other words, they teach those "students" some Python, maybe some statistics and "data handling" with application to exactly what? A-ha, here is the issue, assuming, of course, with a very high probability of those students trying to get their M.S. (yes, Master of fvcking Science) in this "field" having no serious math and physics fundamental education crucial for any field of the modern technology-infused world, and that is why no matter what grade they get in this Hodgepodge collection of intro level programming, multi-media and some basic data-handling, they will remain as ignorant on the realities of engineering and design practices, real physical economy or science. But they also will not get even in the most basic form real warfare, ranging from tactics and operational art to more complex issues of sensors, weapon systems integration and combat control--it is a completely different world which is fully obscured by fanboys on YouTube who wouldn't know the difference between math.expectation and probability of hitting the target, and, incidentally, is precisely completely obfuscated by these very "journalism" and "communications" graduates who do not know shit from shinola and have zero background in warfare.
I don't need to really expose here such "wonderful" examples of military "journalism" such as David Axe or Michael Peck, among many others who grace the pages of innumerable US publications on war and military porn, but they are not there to "report". They are there to spin. I do appreciate and I know there are real American (and Russian) military reporters out there who have seen some shit and they try to report honestly (including by risking their lives) on war issues, but that is still--reporting. It gives some touch to the reality on the ground, but the essential thing which runs modern war: strategic and operational planning, combat command and control--these are very different animals and anyone wouldn't even get close to those without graduating serious military higher learning institution and having serious tactical let alone operational planning experience at least at the level of regiment and its staff. Brigade and division staff level is still preferred. And it is this level at which one begins to learn to handle immense arrays of data of which fanboys who discuss how one or another tank looks like or why F-16 is sexier than MiG-29 (which, actually, is true) have no clue about, as are the graduates of this Data Journalism courses.
That is why such a BS about 15,000 Russian KIAs makes it to Western media, spun, of course, for the sake of the agenda of powers that be and really, any claims by American or European journos about "freedom of press" are met today in Russia and elsewhere with a Homeric laughter. But even factoring all those PR-"professionals" and propaganda pushers one still doesn't get the problem resolved. Professionals, especially serious professionals, and my blog allows many of them to speak here, such as Larry Johnson, or, by references such as Colonel Vladimir Trukhan, or Scott Ritter or Colonel Macgregor, no matter how one tries to convey a complexity of a modern C2 (Command and Control) on the modern and very complex battlefield, Hollywood will always win, as will those "unnamed" Pentagon officials who would be "leaking" a complete BS and non-sense to ignoramuses from media, who exist only for sensation and not for honest reporting. Some of them, as you all know, are downright war criminals.
It is not that Western journos spread lies, it is the fact that with each passing day their BS becomes so outlandish that one has to ask the question: do they even know what basic arithmetic is? I begin to doubt it. I can try to explain to some moron from NYT or WSJ (not that they will be interested in it) how the combat tasks are set and how planning develops from there, how to approximately calculate the force size for a company, even battalion to accomplish the task, where the reserves will come and how, but I cannot help in cases when their parents and schools didn't teach them basic adding and subtraction, not to speak of multiplication and division (ooh, boy those stochastic coefficients, you have to multiply there). So, that is why General Patton is America's main WW II "hero", because BS sells and no matter how one may hate (and they deserve it fully) Erick Von Manstein, Heinz Guderian or Walter Model, should these people be alive today, as would have been Zhukov, Tolbukhin or Rokossovsky, they all would have come to an agreement that the US learned all the wrong lessons from WW II and that explains why the US lost all of its wars which followed. Goebbels would have loved to have Anglo-American MSM journos in his org in Hell. They would fit right in.
In related news. New anecdote from Russia, Madeleine Albright gets to the Charon the ferryman at the river Styx and offers him a coin (one sixth of a Drachma) for crossing the river. Charon shakes his head in disagreement and replies to her: "I accept only Rubles".
What a loser. No, not the fact of him stating what everyone knows already. For a long time, including thorough the only valuable work of "political science" by Mearsheimer and Walt:
No, everyone knows that. It is the fact that Trump "suddenly" discovered that US radically pro-Israel foreign policy is not just supported through Jewish owned mass media and pro-Israel NGOs but through what I am on record for years and years, and not me alone. These are Old Testament fundamentalist evangelical congregations who pretend to be "Christian" while in reality are main conductors, because of their "Doctrine", and supporters of Israel and we are talking about tens of millions of people. Phil Giraldi once wrote a superb piece for Huffington Post and later in was reprinted by the American Conservative:
Huge swaths of the America's "conservatives" are, frankly, aggressive proselytizing nut jobs who do not even recognize in their primitivism other Christian denominations as truly Christian and there are many reasons for that. They are a huge driving force behind radically pro-Israel, and very detrimental to the majority of Americans, policies and they are the main contingent which pro-Israel Lobby employs in subverting the United States. That is why we have this:
Pathetic, really. So, Trump only NOW begins to think about it? Really? Trump licked Israel's boot more than any other recent POTUS and now he speaks about it? How about he acted properly instead of supplying his MAGA crowd with non-stop stream of Twits pretending that he runs the country. At least give Obama a credit--he did engage with Iran and, being badly educated, ignorant really, in issues of Islam, tried to engage Sunnis speaking no less in the hot bed of Islamic radicalism in Al-Azhar University.
I have no sympathy for Trump, especially considering who he allowed in the policy-making circle in the White House--specifically his clueless daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner who looks like an asset of Mossad--but maybe these are not just Jews and evangelicals who really damage the Unites States, but Trump's own utter lack of any qualifications and real political acumen, and passion, which failed not only his fanatical MAGA crowd who still believe that their idol is more than just NYC real estate shyster and media personality, but the country as a whole to which he sold his seemingly common sense agenda, written for him by a... Jew. So, he can sit there and bloviate on the matter of Jewish lobby whatever he wants, but he will fail, yet again, to do the most important thing--he will fail to take personal responsibility for failing his country and being nothing more than an empty suit, who he really is, Israel Lobby notwithstanding. Donnie was always a good goy. A NYC schlimazel, really.
this propensity of the US politicos for getting emotional for no fvcking reason whatsoever. I thought the guy was talking about losing his closest buddy, or a family member, or dear and favorite dog. Or he was telling the history of his incredible survival over Macho Grande. But NO! Adam Kinzinger is emotional because...
He loves... self-governance and cannot take criticism. This sappy sentimental "conservative" is crying because he flew tankers during US operations in Middle East and Afghanistan? So, he never faced a raging and armed mob (no, I am not talking about this cretinism on January 6), never was shot at, never was severely wounded but he cries because of what? What is going on with these overly sentimental and sensitive congress people and other politicos? This is not the first time they are crying a river. Remember this?
Yeah, I can see how these sensitive and teary guys whose only difficulty in life was overcoming a confusion and doubt in choosing which the Ivy League school they want to attend, can "lead" the nation. Exhibition (probably for show) of those "emotions" is becoming tiring and cringe-inducing ordeal for anyone who didn't lose self-respect. And for these "sensitive" BSers I have only one advice: you knew what you were getting into--a cesspool of America's politics, a euphemism for media whoring and selling oneself to a highest bidder, so, find some remnants of masculinity and stop goddamn crying about things others find inconsequential. It is disgusting.
I remember when I was crying, it was when children were being slaughtered in Beslan, I wept in full voice, almost uncontrollably because of what was done to innocents. Because of a complete helplessness to do anything about it, to save a single life.
People tougher than me cried too. That is when you cry. This Kinzinger's spectacle, however, designed primarily for public consumption in the best tradition of lack of taste and class of US media, is not just disgusting but shows a dangerous level of infantilism permeating the whole American political discourse. Wanna them cry about it? Don't hold your breath.
For those who assess modern geopolitics by the appearances in Western media, and want Putin to behave like an...American politician, spewing BS and trying desperately to look good--you better check your contact with reality. Most of the world does not give a flying fuck about West's public opinion anymore and Western media are today laughed at all over the world being viewed as crude pathetic propaganda and spin-machines. To illustrate some actual geopolitical dynamics we take...Turkey.
Here is a recent poll by Areda on who the Turks want to see as their ally, the US or Russia. Well...
RUSSIA IS OUR STRATEGIC PARTNER”
When asked “How would you define the relations between Russia and Turkey” in the survey, 58.2 percent of the respondents said “there is a strategic partnership”. Other answers to the same question were as follows; "10.5 percent are cooperative", 6.5 percent "close cooperation", 4.5 percent "neither cooperation or problems", 9 percent "problems", 11.4 percent "hostile."
"WE DON'T TRUST THE USA"
When asked about the relations between the USA and Turkey, which was asked as "Which of the following options best describes the USA in terms of its relations with Turkey", 35.5 percent of the Turkish people said "unreliable". While 32.8% of the citizens said to the same question as 'colonial country', the other answers of the participants were as 'strategic partner' (18.3%), 'enemy country' (12.4%), and 'friendly and allied country' by 1%.
RUSSIA YES, USA NO
In general, here is the main conclusion of this poll:
CRITICAL CHOICE IS FOR RUSSIAIf you were to choose between the USA and Russia, the answer to the question "Which country would you like Turkey to develop more relations with?" was answered by Russia with 78.9 percent, while the USA remained at 21.1 percent.
So, can we, please, stop this BS about US media declaring this and that--NOBODY cares. The world moves differently, it operates on different premises and US WILL declare the "victory" at the "summit" no matter what. US media will also proclaim that the US is the founder of Sumerian Civilization, that they defeated Carthage and Napoleon and the US is the best thing in the universe, like ever. Live with this. The real conversation will never make it into the "free" (from professionalism and human decency) Western media, who are now a bona fide lie machine. So, don't worry, Russians know that and Putin is just being courteous by talking to them. Period, nothing less, nothing more and Russians are aware of the outside word in general and the US in particular orders (like many orders) of magnitude more than the same could be said about the other way around. I guess, Turks do not watch and read Western BS and make their own conclusions and those are radically anti-American moods and, surprise, surprise, are very strategically pro-Russian. I will repeat--the United States is an economic and military dwarf compared to emerging Eurasian common market and that is what the US tries desperately to prevent. Judging by Turkish moods--not very successfully. Boy, Putin is losing today especially badly /s.
You know, that Press creates (or incites) wars. The American Conservative suddenly (and good for them) decided to take a look at how US media Helps To Start Wars.
Well, I have some news--MOST of US Press, with some very minor exceptions is yellow and is staffed with some, mostly badly educated and completely ideologically indoctrinated (be that left, right or whatever else) pretentious creeps who think that they have valuable skills and by the virtue of their names or mugs being present or exposed in public spaces have the right to express their opinions on military and geopolitical matters about which they have no clue.
I commend the author of this piece, Ted Gallen Carpenter, for this conclusion:
As is so often the case with Trump’s
arguments, his accusation that the press can cause wars is an
exaggeration, but one that contains an important kernel of truth.
Irresponsible media coverage has undoubtedly strengthened public
sentiment for ill-advised wars in the past, and it could do so again in
the future. The sometimes shrill hostility of the mainstream media
towards Russia is pushing the United States toward an increasingly
hardline policy that now borders on a second cold war. The original Cold
War nearly escalated to a hot one on several occasions. The press needs
to be doubly cautious about pushing policies that would send America
down a similar perilous path. Trump is wrong to brand the press as an
enemy of the people, but it is still a powerful institution that has not
always used its great influence responsibly regarding matters of war
and peace.
But it is time to face the truth--if not for war criminals, as an example, such as ambitious ignorant bimbo Christian Amanpour and her "journalist" brethren who went into the direct propaganda for Kosovo Jihadists and criminals, there wouldn't have been a political pressure on Bill Clinton to start war against Serbia. If not for loud mouth ignoramuses from Western so called "news" outlets who support still all kinds of Islamic terrorists from Al Qaeda to ISIS and follow Jihadist' narrative on "chemical weapons"--the tragedy of Syria might have been avoided. So, NO! They not only "play the role"--they participate in atrocities directly by lying to everybody and are as culpable as political cowards who give the orders to bomb and dismantle one nation after another. Those people are no good, pathetic pretentious creeps who, at some point of time, will have to answer for their huge role in bringing the world to the brink of a new global war and they, from Wall Street Journal to NYT, to WaPo, to imbeciles in HuffPo know damn well who they are--they might look up the fate of Goebbels' accomplices after Nuremberg Trials to contemplate what they might be against in the future.
There is no such profession as "journalist", nor there any academically sound foundation for people getting their BA or other graduate degrees in handling microphones and cameras and studying how others BSed the nation before them--anyone with IQ slightly above room temperature and AA degree in English Language or Literature with agile enough tongue can become a "journalist". Whores are more honorable because they do not pretend to be moved by high moral standards--they are into it just to make an honest buck. Western media are pathetic and they are dangerous for the freedom of speech. They are dangerous for their own nations, they are dangerous for the world, of which they know nothing but increasingly irrelevant narratives.
